The real reason liberals accuse Tea Partiers of racism
Unfortunately, not much can be done about this other than what already has. We have to be constantly vigilant, especially with the mainstream media so deeply in the liberal camp, often to an extent those media themselves don’t realize. It’s imbued in their DNA and their unconscious.
An interesting small case in point is the new Christian Science Monitor report “Why ‘tea party’ defenders won’t let N-word claims rest,” superficially a much more sympathetic (to the tea partiers) article than most. It’s an attempt to be even-handed and yet reporter Patrik Jonsson writes of the now famous accusation of multiple N-word use by Tea Partiers from members of the Congressional Black Caucus: Without hard evidence for either side, the conventional wisdom might be for tea partyers to let the incident slide and to blame the movement’s more radical elements.
Say what? Without hard evidence from either side? In the US of A, where I live, we are supposedly innocent until proven guilty. There was no proof at all offered for this accusation of racism. Indeed, some of the accusers have even walked away from it; the originator has gone silent. In a court of law, there would be no need whatsoever for the Tea Partiers to offer evidence of innocence of any kind in their defense. This accusation would be thrown out in a trice. But of course, the Tea Partiers did offer a defense, because the mainstream media has unconscionably stacked the moral deck against the Tea Party movement. And the world knows it. And so does Mr. Jonsson, who, most probably without thinking, employed the rhetoric of “moral equivalency” for his article where there is not even remote moral equivalency. There is only an accusation without proof. I could just as easily accuse Mr. Jonsson of racism — and I don’t know him. He, at least, had the courage to report on this matter with some honesty.
Andrew Breitbart has done a brilliant job of pointing out this profound bias by offering his one hundred thousand dollar reward for provable instances of Tea Party racism, which, thus far and not surprisingly, has not been claimed. I wouldn’t have Andrew’s guts, because I know people make mistakes. But he has certainly made his point — and then some.
So I will return to mine. These are not great times. We may be headed for that double-dip recession or even worse. The administration is going to be proposing legislation like Cap and Trade II that not only hurts the economy but enriches their cronies in the name of bogus science. A VAT — that most regressive of taxes — will ironically be proposed by a purportedly “progressive” administration. (When will that word be returned to where it really belongs — poker?) They will do this in support of expanded government programs that cost billions, probably trillions, more than they will ever admit to themselves or to us.
Yes, as the Chinese curse goes, we do live in interesting times. If they get any more interesting, they will kill us. As they say in that great Dos XX’s ad, “Stay thirsty, my friends.”
The election of Obama was supposed to let us put the race card behind us. How ironic it would be if the way that happens is for Obama and his supporters to play it more and more often during his presidency, whenever any group opposes his policies, until no one pays any attention to it at all. To be accused of racism may end up being a badge of honor, like having a place on Nixon’s enemies list during the Watergate era.
The Race Card(TM) has become the new Godwin’s Law.
Whenever a leftist/liberal/progressive tosses it that signifies that they know they can not win the argument or defend their positions and instead of admitting that they are wrong they resort to ad hominem attacks and tossing The Race Card(TM) like shruikens in a vain attempt to cover their jackasses.
The problem for them is that it is no longer working and what is worse for them is that they are rapidly reaching their “Captain Tupolev”* moment where they realize that all that they have thrown at us is coming right straight back to them and will destroy them. You can already see that they are beginning to grasp this fact in their bones because the panic and desperation levels is ramping up in them.
As Gandhi said “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” We are at step three of that.
A community organizer is a person who organizes the community against the person in “power”, i.e. the white man in order to extract things for their benefit. This requires the community organizer to create tension not only to satisfy his existence (for if the “community” realized that they could achieve a great many things through mutual trade there would be no need for a “community organizer”), but to position himself as providing something that can increase his own power by way of that extraction.
Barack Obama, who was a community organizer and still acts like one, could no more move us beyond race than I can convince my black friends that “racism” is a state of mind, not an institutional concept and they are more likely to be racist than the whites they accuse of being racist. Barack Obama needs to foment division lest all people begin to realize that he is selling them not diamonds but a handful of rocks.
Black people believe in institutional racism because they have been indoctrinated to believe that, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. I reviewed some history of racial theory and the subtle reinforcements to that belief in the schools and universities and media here and elsewhere on my website: http://clarespark.com/2010/04/08/racism-modernity-modernism/. Look also for the the several entries on Arne Duncan as portrayed in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. And if you think that the reparations movement is dead, join the Humanities-Net discussion group H-Slavery.
I will be honest. After the election I’ve been disappointed in black people. I know some may say this is racism, and maybe it is, but I never treat people differently on the individual basis. (I believe in a literal Genesis!) I just can’t seem to help having a general belief about black people supporting Barack Obama by default. I know this is wrong. These are thoughts I need to sort out, and be in control of.
Since, blacks normally highly favor Democrats there is also a high coincidental aspect, and therefore an immediate check in judgment of accusing black people of black supremacy, but it really seems that there is an extra fervor in their eyes and voices. And I can’t help but notice. I can’t imagine that their emulations for their own can ever, ever be conceived as rightness when taken in equal measure from a white person’s perspective. However, this is a cultural moment, and we have to appreciate that, and we have to be discerning.
I hope that that extra fervor is gratefulness for the equality and chance for opportunity in the land God gave this people, and that Barack represents this right feeling as a symbol. I hope that they realize that America is the least racist nation from this experience. I hope their fervor isn’t black supremacy, and in the meantime, I’d like the backbiting to stop, which accuses anyone of opposition of some form of bigotry. And I hope that blacks and other minorities realize that Barack’s vision for America is not what built this country.
I am not disappointed in black people for voting for Obama. It’s human nature, kind of like Catholics voting for Kennedy in 1960. We were really overdue to elect a black President in this country.
The real shame is that the first black President is just a slick talking, dishonest and not terribly competent product of the corrupt Chicago political machine instead of somebody that everyone can be proud of.
Oh, well. Maybe his birth certificate will turn up with his race listed as “white” so that we will get another chance to elect the first black President. Next time we can try for one with two black parents.
I couldn’t agree more. It annoys me to no end that the first black president is going to be among the worst, if not the very worst president in history. Rather like the first female speaker of the house being the worst in history.
I would love to vote for the first female president, first Latino or what have you; but I’m not voting for a Marxist/Leftist/Fascist/Communist/Socialist/Liberal/Progressive/insert-new-label-here no matter what else they are.
Where’s Margeret Thatcher when you need her? I would love to think Palin is just such another, but I’ve got my doubts. Time will tell.
TeaBaggers don’t have to prove they are not racist, but Obama has to prove he is a citizen.
Typical Republican Tea Bagger Hypocrite.
Jeff, Jeff, Jeff. Kettle black much?
Jeff, that was quite possibly one of the most insane declarations, and asserstions i have ever read.
Equating someone having racist views, to some ones citizenship is unfathomable.
It shows that your mind has become so warped, that reality has long since escaped it.
You compare an official legal document, of one person, to the sterotypical opinions, of a media made charicture, of millions of Consitutionalists ..
It would be interesting to see if teabaggers are racists, but no such study has ever been done. Leftists like Jeff, however, are provable homophobes. Using the term “teabagger” as an insult proves that he’s a homophobe along with the million of other Lefties (including personalities on major news networks) that routinely use that term as a pejorative.
Though as a Leftie, he’s clearly too ignorant to even know what he’s doing. Sheep aren’t know for their intelligence.
To Taylor’s point; there were people questioning whether John McCain counted as a natural born citizen and would he therefore able to serve as president because he was born in the Panama Canal Zone. Is that racist?
The term “Teabaggers” is profane. I didn’t know what is was until jerks like you started calling them names. Naner-naner-naner. That’s what you’re reduced to [sic]. No one of any consequence (Bill, Rush, Sean) has any question about any birth certificate. It was published in two newspapers contemporaneously. Remember, call us names. You have no argument (sorry about all the big words).
I suggest that next time, we don’t “try” for a president of any particular ethnicity. Look what this kind of thinking – oooh, let’s elect a black president! – without serious regard to personal and political history got us: someone who is incompetent on every level. In addition to that, now every single thing is boiled down to race. If this is how it’s going to be whenever we elect a black president, I’d just as soon pass on the next one, thank you. I’ve never heard so much chatter about race in my life! Someone’s race has never mattered to me. But, along comes Obama, and we’re just hammered with it, day in and day out. Next time, let’s just vote in the best person for the Oval Office, regardless of their ethnicity, and not just simply try to fulfill some Affirmative Action fantasy.
Nice platitudes, but I don’t think that is going to fly, the black community follows obama because he is black and in their mind promises them bigger and better welfare payments, the free ride so to speak.
Their are blacks with sense enough to come in out of the rain, but their numbers are obviously small.
Ole Sarge, you have it exactly right.
I love how in an article about how Teapartiers aren’t racist, you feel the need to post racist crap like this “Their are blacks with sense enough to come in out of the rain, but their numbers are obviously small.”
Stay classy!
Frank….so you disagree. That doesnt make the man wrong. And just because your opinion differs doesnt mean youre right.
Youre right in ‘your’ eyes, probably because youre a minority.
The man IS absolutely right, whether you want to accept it or not.
The real reason that Leftists call us racists (or sexists or whatever) is because we really care about these issues, they only pretend to.
They know that calling us these things hurts, otherwise they wouldn’t bother.
The real reason is projection. The left knows that they are racist, so they assume everyone else must be as well. The left routinely accuses others of doing what they themselves want to do. Indeed would do, if they had the power.
It’s projection. They can’t understand why we have not reacted with violence, because that is what they would do. They don’t seem to have the capacity to fathom that we’re not like them.
You’re all overthinking it:
They call us racists to shut us up, pure and simple.
And it works, because, as when you called someone a “witch” in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the seventeenth century, or as when you called someone a “communist” in the 1950s, it is a charge that instantly is taken as true, without proof, and it’s the worst thing you can possibly say about somebody.
A “RACISM!” accusation has been the Left’s trump card for a long, long time now, but only with the candidacy and rise to power of Barack Obama did it reach its height. You can name all the Republican officeholders who [i]weren’t[/i] cowed and kept in line by the mere fear of such a charge on one hand.
There are some signs of awakening, of people fighting back against this patently stupid and dishonest tactic of the Left. But don’t expect elected Republican officials to be in the vanguard of a movement like that.
//Their are blacks with sense enough to come in out of the rain, but their numbers are obviously small.// Has it occurred to anybody that the “real reason” is that Tea Partiers talk like your friend here?
I read in a newspaper article about two or three months ago, a contest being held for local children to enter in a science fair, it was hosted by a local organization (I don’t remember which one, but it was co-sponsored by NAACP.) Applicants could only be of African-American descent between the ages of 7 and 12. So, Latino, Asian, and Caucasian children were technically barred entry to this local event.
This is the height of racism, when only “select labeled social groups” can enter their children in a local science fair contest? Not one single issue was raised within the community. If Latino, Caucasian, Asian, etc. held a similar bar on applicants it would be touted as racist. There would probably be a class-action lawsuit!
There is valid frustration about double-standards within our communities, and I believe that is where the rhetoric is coming from. People are tired of it being OK to have black-only socially accepted events. I’d love to see ANY other community try to do the same thing. They’d be sued for discrimination.
And I mandate that it is NOT racist to talk about these issues or to vent about the frustrations of these issues. Talking about any issue doesn’t amount to racism, and a person can’t be called racist for bringing it up in a forum. I personally am frustrated by the apparent social acceptance of black racism towards non-blacks and the overwhelming angry reaction to anyone who suggests it isn’t right.
rac·ism
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–noun
1.a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
2.a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
Has it ever occurred to you that he was actually one of yours, trying to sabotage the movement? Was that actually you?
We’ve got to salt the mine a little here and get all our Black, Hispanic, East Asian and South Asian friends and neighbors to join us at the Tea Party. If we get any Older or Whiter we will look like a nursing home in the Midwest.
Moby much?
Aaaand “Crash the Tea Party” sends another suicide bomber.
Eden, I totally agree! There’s a great American who loves America dearly and who’s a member of the Tea Party, Lloyd Marcus. I hope Mr. Marcus influences and inspires many more people of color to join the movement.
Eden, its not the older people at the rallies that should be feared.
Its the Sons and Daughters and Nephews and Neices and all the ones that will Protect their Family Members, the TeaParty Patriots. Its the ones they DONT see, and they know it. {I know, alot of ands.}
If, for one second they believe they are going to be fighting the older generation that is out there protesting they are truly fools. They will be blindsided by people such as myself (The middle-aged Patriots). We’re stronger and smarter. There is no comparison. We have Love and Liberty on Our side. All they have is Hate, resentment and a vengeance to get even at the people that have accepted them into a society.
There will be no remorse this time because WE ARE the objects of hate.
People are beyond ‘pissed’…..they are Serious.
Not to mention Eden….the blacks, hispanics and other minorities bussed up and went in droves to vote for ‘their’ identity.
Why would I care if blacks or hispanics join in or not. They didnt think of Whites when they pulled the lever for their master.
Turn about is fair play in their book..why cant We play by their rules?
The postmodernist left is inherently anti-intellectual. Its members are incapable of thinking and following a logical argument. Ideology always trumps empirical evidence. A search for the truth is perceived as surrendering to the forces of reaction. These people are immature narcissists. They are enraged if the deluded masses fail to appreciate their wisdom and self-sacrificing behavior. Only scum bags, of course, could possibly want to keep them out of power. Such reactionaries may obviously have to be destroyed.
The employment of the race card is a key tactic of the leftist controlled Democratic Party. All opponents of illegal immigration are to be charged with racism. Mickey Kaus’ most peculiar challenge against Barbara Boxer is an existential threat. He can cause irreparable damage to the Democrats not only in California—but nationwide. It is going to get very interesting. One wonders if Kaus even realizes that he is burning his bridges with many of his friends of many years. The financial earnings of countless left-wing Democrats depend on the continuation of race card politics. Kaus is jeopardizing their future paychecks.
Too vanilla an analysis, David.
You left out the Bolsheviks’ agents provocateurs.
The Chicago mob, Acorn clones, Union thugs, and on and on, will make mince meat of Mom and Pop Tea Partiers this summer.
=:0bama will grill up a long and hot summer for this election season, and the Country Club Republicans and all the Moms and Pops in the world will wilt like dandylions in June.
Fortunately, the Tea Party is not only little old ladies. There are other, more vigorous, players in the party. These people are armed with ubiquitous video, at the very least. Many tea party players are very aware that any conflict beyond sign-waving must be started by the government forces or their proxy thugs, but once they make that mistake, we are quite prepared for what happens next.
I think we need to point out the reason why there are so many “old folks” in the Tea Party: They’re the wisest among us! The liberals can’t see past their ageist assumptions that “old folks” are too dotty to know what they’re doing. Another grandiose mistake on their part.
Now that the racism shtick seems not to be working so well, the new meme will be “Tea Party people are just a bunch of old people suffering from dementia”.
Not only are the leftists racist, they are ageist as well. They think people of color cannot do anything worthwhile without the help of the state and that grandma and grandpa are too old and feeble to even worry about. As far as they are concerned the only opinions that count are fabulous hipster opinions. I think we can see where that has gotten us.
“the Tea Party is not only little old ladies.”
True, but don’t underestimate little old ladies. April 15 I witnessed someone across the street surreptitiously filming those of us lining a highway. The “little old lady” in front of me noticed it too. She crossed the street, found the photographer behind a tree, demanded to know who he was, and then demanded the smart card from his camera…AND GOT IT! “Nobody is filming me without my permission,” she said. I doubt she had a legal basis for her actions, but she got the card. I would not encourage anyone to underestimate such little old ladies!
All the violence and hate of the liberal left can be distilled and focused into the two most enlightening proper nouns in the English language:
Ken Gladney.
Mainstream media no longer controls the narrative. Let the liberals come. We’ll catch them on tape. For every Ken Gladney they beat down a thousand independents will rise up.
This is actually good news, though amid all the Sturm und Drang the Left is capable of raising through its allies in the Old Media, it can be hard to see it that way.
We’re witnessing a political frenzy on the Left. It means we’re on the verge of victory. Stay sharp!
Thanks, well said..
I’d bet that 90-95 pct of the white racists in this country are liberals. It gives them a feeling of sanctimonious satisfaction to feel they are helping minorities, who they secretly feel just can’t make it in the white world without their benevolent sponsorship. And this allows them to believe they are better, more evolved people than those ignorant tea party types.
EXACTLY!!!! the left-wingers are “oh soooooooooo superior” they KNOW better than everyone else!!!! you got that one right. and their level of arrogance is beyond tolerable.
Excellent piece Roger. I agree with you we are going to go through some horrible times in the near future. We may already be beyond the point where our economy can recover without severe dislocation.If Obama’s fiscal policys were sound then Argentina would be a super power.
Back in the 70′s in NYC on a very, very hot summer day, some nutty guy jumped off the Morton Street Pier and into the Hudson (to cool off)! The water was do disgustingly filthy that when they got him out, he couldn’t stop throwing up and had to be taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital.
That’s what even thinking about what the Obama Administration is can do to a normal person.
There isn’t a clean drop in it — it’s totally contaminated.
Sorry to be so harsh (yes, you can call it demonizing the opposition) but that’s the way I see it. This is something beyond “opposition.” The bare-faced lies — such big ones, the deceit, the manipulation, the disregard, the total disrespect, the race-baiting, the class-warfare, the dirty dealing, the profiteering (I’ve run out of adjectives) is far beyond anything shady that we’ve ever been exposed to in American politics before. Way beyond.
It goes beyond the leftist belief in clearly ideologically bankrupt ideas of “social justice” and gigantic government — to outright filthy (international) profiteering in phoney cap & trade — on a scale and level that’s mind boggling — combined with Chicago gangster tactics.
They are unconcerned that what they are doing is going to create disaster in this country — and the world — and they know it will.
They do not give a damn, as they pretend, about creating better conditions for the poor — and never have. It’s just their cover.
These people are determined to Win — at any cost!
They are not those who would stay even at the far extremes of any boundaries that we could recognize as legitimate.
Just for one — look at how they outright sacrificed the careers of their own Senators and Representatives who they forced to vote against the will of the overwhelming majority of Citizens. If that isn’t cause to ask what else they would be willing to do, I don’t know what would.
They are worried that if the Dems lose too big in November, they’ll be set way back.
There’s no doubt they knew there would be a big push back. But they’ve been a little surprised by the extent of the public’s reaction to their “program” or that it would have the teeth it does.
A huge machine and plenty of money is behind them. And knowing that the press won’t call them on anything — they have plenty of “nerve” to do whatever it takes.
They are very busy planning. The “racism” labeling and character assinations are the tip of the iceburg. Next, they are trying (although it is hard with so many “blue haired” ladies) to rev up the “violence” accusations.
Who knows what that will produce for them, and who knows what the step after that will be — but you can be sure there’s going to be something — many many things –really strong ones — coming at us this summer. From summer to November is going to be rough and likely quite ugly.
(And after November, after they announce more crippling taxes, more than pushing the EPA and Cap and Trade, more than Amnesty and the votes they plan to get from that — If they can find a way — and they will try real hard — I will bet that they are going to go after the Internet in some way — it’s the biggest threat to them for 2012. They’ve already tried and failed (so far) to get access to all emails.)
Andrew Breitbart is brilliant at sensing next moves and tactics. He needs a think tank of many clones of himself, devoting a great deal of time imagining alternatives of what moves might be made, and how to get prepared to counter them.
(If we don’t unseat enough Dems in November, the consequences are unthinkable.)
Barry knows the internet helped get him elected and he also must know that the sword cuts both ways.
I’m sure something is in the ‘works’ to undermine and severely restrict the freedom of information on the ‘net for Americans.
In other words, the internet is about to be ” HuffPo’d”?
I just got banned from there for arguing with facts and logic but my real sin was not worshipping Obamao.
“The real reason liberals accuse Tea Partiers of racism”
Thank you for writing on this issue and allowing the nuanced opinions/insights of your readers.
Typically, invariably, the “substance less name caller” describes only himself.
Here, you are of course racist if you oppose the “redistribution of income” from rich (read white) to poor (read black w/”tokens” added).
The real reason liberals accuse TEA Partiers of racism? It’s all they’ve got, it’s the best they can do. Most of the T-partiers I know are concerned about the government spending money they and we don’t have. How does over-spending break down by race? I don’t have a clue and I don’t think that way. I don’t go through life looking at skin color first and everything else is secondary. Everytime I hear this garbage from the left it seems they are saying “people seem to like your ideas so we’re going to have to call you names because we don’t want to defend ours”. Bring on November 2010 and 2012!
When someone calls me a racist, instead of trying to prove a negative, I call them a pedophile.
I just point out that they made a decision about me because of the color of my skin. By my definition that makes them the racist.
Please man, dont us the word pedophile , pedophiles supposed to be kill like dogs with rabies, they kill your kids and my,kids.
NICE!!!!!
This is a really good idea. I’ve often thought that if some white liberal were to accuse me of being racist, I’d illustrate the absurd and unprovable nature of his/her accusation of racism by countering with an equally absurd and unprovable counter-accusation of pedophilia. Both are pernicious claims that, in the absence of conclusive evidence against the accused, can neither be proven by the accuser, or disproved by the accused.
Which is also why the libs have to pull in large numbers of new “plantation” voters to join the blacks and the self-hating Jews. They get a lot of dollars from the unions but do not harvest the voters from this group with the exception of the teachers and the government “workers”.
They are looking to the Puerto Ricans and the Mexicans to fill out their numbers and enshrine their power…DC and Puerto Rico would make it very difficult to move out their Congressional power base.
When I read about Bill Ayers and his plans to overthrow our government in the late ’60′s, he used racism as his excuse to inter or eliminate many millions of Americans. Racism was also at the core of Saul Alinsy’s radical beliefs.
There’s only one thing wrong with that idea today: there’s no institutionalized separation of races any more. No separate water fountains exist anywhere. In fact, minorities are favored over the majority in the workplace and in academia. The professional racists such as Jesse Jackon and Al Sharpton must keep alive the dead notion of racism for their livlihoods.
Meanwhile, out here in the real world, I don’t know of one single person who professes to hate anyone because of the color of their skin.
I bet you don’t either.
Right with you Backwardsboy. My sister is a progressive and she hasn’t tried to call me racist for the simple fact that I would have to hate my husband and children, as well as her husband and children, and my younger sister’s husband and children and my brother’s child. They are all of different races and all welcome into the family with open arms. I watched a segment on the Today show where to few black conservitives were called names by memebers of their own race. Its a sad world we live in my bother, a sad sad world.
Never mind that there is no evidence
Since when have liberals ever cared about evidence? To them, if something feels right, it is right. No more thinking necessary.
No, Roger, I’m afraid they’re cleverer than that. Racism has to be made Pulic Enemy No. 1, because the jewel in the Left’s strategic crown in the near-term is amnesty for illegals. The conversion of 12 million criminals into 12 million Dem insta-votes in the teeth of public opposition is to paint any and all opponents of amnesty as racists and beyond the pale.
I think there is an element of soft bigotry to assume that blacks and Hispanics will swallow the left’s empty rhetoric about tea partiers. A lot of Hispanics run small businesses. I know they are in sympathy, to some degree, with the illegals as they perceive it to be driven by prejudice, but that may wane. Middle class blacks still harbor some racial resentment but I cannot believe that they are incapable of seeing the disastrous course the US is on. I listened to Charles Payne’s radio program on investments for a year before I saw him on Glenn Beck and realized he is black. There have to be millions like him. The tea party is about economics and not much else, based on my observation.
Eventually, people are going to realize that the Arizona law is no more invasive in terms of “papers” than the laws about driving and using credit cards.
Unfortunately, it appears the assumption the blacks will continue to drink the Liberal kool-aid is all too accurate. The black politicians and leaders tell their electorate how to vote and the sheep do what they are told, year after year, election after election. (Think Adam Clayton Powell.) Even now, polls repeatedly show overwhelming support for Obama and his cronies.
I recognize that there are exceptions. Blacks do show up at Tea Parties, but many of those folks relate tales of being called Uncle Toms or Oreos, being shunned, etc.
Will this be true of the Hispanics at the national level? In my experience as an Arizonan, it is. Again, there ARE exceptions. But after watching state level politics for too many years, I am skeptical. Bloc voters seem more concerned with being part of the bloc than anything else.
The racial tactic is a basic strategy of Obama’s personal triad of interaction with others. Misinformation, emotional manipulation, and, if you criticize him, accusations of your bias.
His election campaign, with its mantra of ‘we are all Americans’ and its open declaration of postracism, was actually a statement deeply embedded in racism. Obama was clearly saying that ‘UNLESS you vote for me, you are a racist’.
The charge of racism is thus a key component of the current Executive Branch of US government. It is being used against any and all who criticize and dissent from Obama. Obama is a pathological narcissist; he cannot handle criticism because any hint of dissent psychologically threatens his deep need to control other people.
Notice how often Obama and the Executive have used racism this past year. It was a key component of his election campaign. Then, it was basic to the Stimulus Package which set up ‘the wealthy white’ against the impoverished colored. Health care was the same. The Wall Street attacks have been open attacks against ‘wealthy white’. For Obama, wealth is not derived from work and merit but is a sign of ‘greed’ and amoral. [He excludes his own wealth of course].
And of course, Obama and the Executive will refuse to secure the Mexican borders because Obama wants the hispanic and leftist vote. Already, his attacks against Arizona are grounded in racism. He knows he wouldn’t get amnesty through so he instead, incites Americans against each other and moves his electoral base into mindless adulation of his ‘preaching’.
On a side note, it is in itself, racist, to privilege one group of ‘immigrants’ to the US, the hispanics, by allowing them illegal entry, while insisting that all others, be they from China to Canada to Poland and Africa, must go through ‘due process’.
Here is what a real violent racist looks like. He is on display when the Senate of the State of New York is in session:
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/kevin.parker.outburst.2.1660854.html
Where’s Ron Rosenbaum?
I thought the exact same thing. A picture of Ron should have accompanied this article. Thankfully, I think he keeps his nonsense these days over at the nut house that is Salon.com.
I am curious to know what happened.. here one day gone the next after years of service… did Simon have just have enough? did Ron go crazy?, which seemed inevitable. what happened?
Ron is still archived here on PJM:
http://pajamasmedia.com/ronrosenbaum/
Or, if you want to see something really scary:
EEK!
Great article Roger – your best yet I’ve read. Simply state the facts that the Left’s plans for America are not sustainable and if allowed to continue, will ruin America. Though not a Tea Party member, I think that is what the Tea Party is about.
It’s more than just basic economics – it’s about truth and exposing the double standards. And that is why it is imperative that everyone be on their best behavior this summer.
Don’t get baited into acting like a Progressive, a Leftist, a victim.
100% agreement with the thesis. The liberals in Congress themselves have admitted it. When ObamaCare was passed, they proclaimed their jubilation at the fact that they had fulfilled FDR’s dream from the 1930′s. 80 freakin’ years ago!! The Left hasn’t had a new idea (well, except for scams like AGW and comparable worth) since the 1960′s.
Racism is not their last resort, Roger: It is their only resort. They simply have nothing left.
Watch and listen as they speak. If they did not have Racism to talk about, they would have nothing at all to say.
Its really great to see the tea party make the statements that it does. Its great to see the concern of the people. The next step is the toughest of all. In order to do battle with the established powers that be you must have leaders that have succeeded or it will come to naught.
There have been a few successes (the Governor of New Jersey and Louisiana). They are men of backbone and common sense. However they are Republicans. The former Governor of Alaska is also a Republican. And it seems that’s a very small pool. The good Senator from Massachusetts is just a beginner and its too soon to tell.
This next few months and possibly a year there needs to be a strong contender that must emerge out of the Tea Party.
The Tea Party needs people of substance
Before we grow too pleased with ourselves, let’s ask: When was the last time we heard anything new from the Republicans? Was conservative thought petrified in 1994? The calls i’m getting from the GOP have all been “Obama’s going to sell us all down the river, give us 50 bucks to stop him.” Nothing but fear, no ideas.
If we’re going to move the government away from its current economic depravity, we’ll face a complicated array of interests. Any approach will have to rest on intellectual coherence. And right now, from where I’m sitting, there doesn’t seem to be much coherence coming from either side of the aisle.
“When was the last time we heard anything new from the Republicans?”
When was the last time you listened?
I think it’s Rep. Paul Ryan who has a plan for getting the feds out of the spending mess. Look at what he’s proposing.
Fair enough, that’s a start.
There are always people out there with good ideas. The pity is, that when the Republicans were last in power, as a group, they chose not to pursue a course of fiscal responsibility. In other words, they had become corrupt. Now the ‘Contract from America’ has been published, so there are some ideas in play. Let’s see if anybody in the Republican (or Democratic) Parties will salute when it’s run up the flagpole?
Progressives have insinuated themselves into the Republican Party, and/or too many Republicans are of the Rockefeller type and thus when in power offer NO foil/pushback to the Left. The Rockefeller type, your J. McCains, Lindsey Grahams, Arlen Spectors (to name the most glaring examples) have agendas that vary merely by degree from that of the Democrats. They’re not good for America (corrupt or otherwise) because they act out of self-interest and not principle: E.g., what was J.McCain thinking when he cooked up the trashing of our First Amendment with his dem buddy Feingold? It was not the Constitution, it was entrenching his power by silencing a vast swathe of the public at election time.
Roger, they’re not libs … they’re simply Alinsky’s true believers.
Excellent piece Mr Simon. I think you are correct that we are headed for a civil war. I hope it will be more like the Solidarity movement in Poland than the war in Spain in the thirties, but we are at a point now where we will have to defeat them or live in chains. They call the Tea Party people names because they know we are decent, law abiding people. You don’t hear them calling the Muslim terrorists names , or the thugs who blocked the voting polls names, do you? They are afraid of those people.
And finally, What does being a “racist” even mean anymore? It’s like calling someone an Albigensian or a Monarchist. It is not an issue today.
It may be someday, but it isn’t today. Ask your kids. They don’t care about skin color. Listen up Liberals- no one cares about that anymore!Join the 21st Century.We have new problems to address. I am in my 50s and I don’t know ANYONE who thinks about race that way. My PARENTS don’t think that way, they never did. That battle has been won for at least 30 years. No one is going to institute poll taxes , or segregation, or slavery. No one is joining the Klan. At least , not a Republican administration. If you recall, it was mostly Democrats who instituted those things.
“Without hard evidence for either side, the conventional wisdom might be for tea partyers to let the incident slide and to blame the movement’s more radical elements.”
Ever been advised by counsel to settle when you didn’t do anything wrong? I have. Same idea. I think we’d be a healthier society if defendants would stop settling out of court when they’re innocent.
Au contraire, Roger. According the this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lynn-parramore/the-deficit-nine-myths-we_b_553527.html the government can print and spend money like a drunked sailor (my apologies to drunken sailors) with impunity, because it’s all just “key strokes.” There’s no real “money” involved.
Phew, I was worried for awhile there that we were doomed.
The reason the left accuses others of racism is two-fold.
1. It puts the other party on the defensive automatically. Do not take the bait, just say if that is all you have then you are truely out of ammunition.
2. They need to change the subject, and it works. This is why defending ourselves against these false accusations is always a victory for the left.
The left defines us. The left gets to set the agenda. The left still own the Mass Media and Universities. These are difficult to overcome. Conservatives need to better define themselves but how do we do it when we have limited avenues compared to the left. Newspapers, Networks, and most State Universities are today in finaincial trouble and part of our problem will self correct but can we afford to wait for that correction.
Mr. Simon is correct, we do live in Interesting Times and I do not know how much more Interesting it can get.
Let me finish your thought: “I don’t know how much more Interesting it can get,” before it becomes dangerous times.
Good comments, richb313.
darcy
Now that we are officially racist (no evidence required), are we still dumb? Seems to me, the left considers us STUPID because we don’t believe in Glo-bull warming, and STUPID because we don’t believe that ObamaCare will save us money, and STUPID to want Constitutional government…I was getting used to being stupid, now I have to be a racist too? Does that mean I can not vote for the Black Conservative running for Congress in SC, because I really was planning to support Tim Scott. (I think he’s got a shot of winning too).
Well, but aside from the fact that “progressivism” is indeed intellectually bankrupt, there is a certain logic to their accusation.
It goes like this: “Where were all these tea partiers when Bush was running up hundreds of billions of debt? They were silent!” (No, they weren’t, but as Roger and many commenters have pointed out, facts don’t matter to progressives.) So: no complaints when Bush was doing it, but loud uproar when Obama does it… the putative complaint is therefore illegitimate. The tea partiers’ real motivation must be something else.
And, since progressives are obsessed with race, racism is, for them, the easiest conclusion to assume.
I’m not sure how much honesty Mr. Jonsson brought to the issue. He claims that the congressman, and presumably Pelosi after that, walked through the crowd rather than use the tunnel in order to enjoy the Spring weather.
When the going gets racial the racial turn pro, to mangle a quote from Hunter Thompson.
I fear things will get pretty nasty in the next couple of years (at least), no help, thank you, from our Agitator-in-Chief. Yes, we live in interesting times; if I remember correctly, though, the Chinese curse is a blessing, as well.
From Steinbeck’s “In Dubious Battle,”
“‘A smell of blood seems to steam ‘em up.’…’A little blood sets the guys off.’”
“Some leaders also use the desire for revenge to gain exuberance from their group. This desire for revenge stems from the desire to look out for those who are victims of power.”
This post has been linked for the HOT5 Daily 4/29/2010, at The Unreligious Right
Everyone on this thread seems to be falling for Obama’s ploy. Cry racism and that will get the juices running, and split the opponents. Look at the immigration issue as it pertains to the new Arizona law. Jeb Bush,Michael Gerson and even Marco Rubio all fell for the MSM take on the issue. Folks re-read Alinsky and that will tell just about everything you need to know about Obama.
“Without hard evidence for either side, the conventional wisdom might be for tea partyers to let the incident slide and to blame the movement’s more radical elements.”
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There’s no evidence that epiode happened in the first place. Why should we accept any blame for something that didn’t happen?
There is another reason: accusations of racism work. Republicans in particular go to pieces at the mere thought of being accused of racism. If you don’t believe me, just walk into a crowded rooms one day and shout “Racist!!” The ones who soiled their underwear are the Republicans.
If the GOP is ever to become politically relevant again, it must fight back tooth-and-nail against this sleazy trick. But as long as Republicans are willing to boot this problem down the road hoping it will somehow just go away they will continue to be in the minority.
Mwalimu Daudi: you are out to lunch.
In other words, you haven’t a clue.
If someone called me a racist I’d laugh!!!! I’d realize immediately that the verbal arrow was intended to silence me. Period. And me shut up?? Well, you can imagine how that would go over.
So the leftist demagogues and their fellow travelers want to “move on” past their blatant and scurrilous lies concerning the the Tea Party’s alleged use of the “N-word”. Sure. Why not? Isn’t that the way the game is played? The Left hurls baseless slander and conservatives everywhere cower in fear, self-loathing and guilt? Apologies and penance all around? Surrender the high ground? Be the political pinata? Line up for the next beating?
In the civilized world, the accused have a right to defend themselves from calculating, deliberate untruths regurgitated by those who would position themselves as above reproach. The Tea Party is owed a very public apology from the shameless politicians who made the very public accusations. What’s the hold up? Time to man-up, Jesse, Jr.
Accountability is a wonderful and liberating thing. Just ask Dan Rather.
Or to more better mangle Hunter Thompson:
When the going gets racist, the racist turn pro.
I have never understood how people like Bill Ayers and his ilk, including TOTUS & co. (who were pretty much well to do, spoiled brats who are bored) always seem to be the ones who (in their middle age now)who pull the race card.
This convinces me, that indeed they have figured out this is the last straw in their bag of tricks. I don’t know a person who enjoys destruction and this whole group is nothing but, a bunch of nasty, vile and evil spoiled criminals.
If all of these anti-americans would just please go to any socialist country of their choosing, then just GO. If you and your whole group are soooo disgusted with the USA. Go live elsewhere.
Us true Americans who love our Country will be JUST fine without you losers.
I’ve always found it interesting that it is almost always the children of the wealthy, or at least upper, upper, middle class, who fall for this socialism/marxism garbage.
I don’t know if it’s guilt for having so much that they didn’t themselves work for.
Or if it’s a rejection of parents that spent too much time working and not enough time with the kids.
Or what.
Children from working class families rarely fall for this nonsense.
There’s an easy answer: Marx himself came from the inheritor class. Anyone from a similar background picks up on it, and identifies with him somewhat.
For details on Marx’s life, see chapter 3 of Paul Johnson’s INTELLECTUALS.
Optical Psychology can be used to ray-trace the projections
from the fevered minds of the Far Left Progressives back to
their origins: Accusations of Racism, fear of firearms,
suspecting conspiracy whenever two or more opponents meet.
They have nothing left to say, but perhaps something left
to do, a desperate move by those with little left to lose,
and not much time left to regret it. It can’t happen here ?
Well, no, but still, the Tea Party organizers need
to pay close attention to security, particularly internal,
because even a failed attempt will have serious consequences.
After eight years of “you’re helping the terrorists” any time someone mildly criticized our budget draining war efforts, this is pretty hilarious.
Given how central the war is to crushing the terrorists, if you are opposed to the war, merely because of how much money is being spent, then yes, you are helping the terrorists.
Learn to live with reality.
Nowhere near as hilarious as eight years of listening to libtards screaming “DISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM”, and now hearing the same libtards screaming “SEDITTION! TREASON!” at anyone who doubts the transcendent wonderfulness of the Southside Messiah.
And yet the minorities and “self-hating Jews” vote overwhelmingly for the Dems. Are they all stupid? deluded? ignorant?
The slanders streaming from the Left against the Tea Partiers is aimed mainly at their ethnic votaries to ‘keep them on the plantatation.’ Sadly for all this tactic works and works well. Without the endless catychisms about how racist violent and nazilike the Right is – that crazy herd of cats on the Left might begin to notice how threadbare their offerings actually are. Having once been nominally captive in that camp, I think I’m correct to say that those above the age of 32-35 who have remained ‘on the plantatation’ through all the upheavals since 9/11 are diehards and probably permanently transfixed by their mezmerizing hatred. Many of those younger captives are now / will become permanently transfixed no matter what. Those on the right must work hard to peel away the remaining ones, but we mustn’t confuse that worthy battle for the war. For too long the Left has defined the terms and the terrain, the Right has played into the trap and remained in rear-guard formation. Fighting endless accusations of “Racist!” is one such rear-guard distraction.
Minds on the right must neutralize this nearly omnipotent weapon in the enemy’s arsenal. This is already beginning with the cameras and pushback, but much more must be done.
The equallibrium the right has been deluded into expecting from our political system is shattered. American politics long ago stopped being an ebb and flow between two polarities, but the Right continued to behave as if it was. The Left is only interested in moving in one direction, and that is ever further Left. Under the generalship of Obama the Left is waging sorched earth political war. Henceforth we must also wage political war for keeps. Our enemy is arrayed, they are legion, and we are still on defense.
The community organizer, with the barest of resumes, came from nowhere to the Presidency, for one reason. He was black. 95% of blacks voted for him. That is racism. Others, who voted for Obama, were either extremely naive in believing what he said, or voted for him because he was black. The definition of racism.
Liberals have nothing else to say or do. Accusations of racism are their last resort.
I endorse this thesis
A modern liberal has little going for him & thus must rely on endless attempts to engender class warfare and stir up identity politics.
(shockingly enough for a national leader, the casting of a “racist” aspersion characterizes Obama’s first reaction to both the Gates incident and the Arizona statute)
Thus the traditional wish to kill the messenger who brings the bad news: the Tea Partiers…To engage the Tea Party Movement in a battle of ideas would be suicidal for them…
It would, indeed.
Attempting to diss the tea partiers is orchestrated policy, with a whole host of characters on board, David Axelrod as the point man and a compliant media doing the heavy lifting.
— many strains of the left will redouble their efforts to define the Tea Party movement as racist, further splitting our society and racializing it…
To the extent people expend energy disputing the Left’s manufactured accusations, the left is directing the dialogue.
A better response is laughter & mockery.
Thin-skinned dweebs hate that
The Tea Party Patriots are now trying to collaborate in being considered racist by running a petition in support of the AZ immigration law.
http://www.teapartypatriots.org/ImmigrationPetition/Default.aspx
According to the mission statement, the TPP core values are (1) Fiscal Responsibility. (2) Constitutionally limited government. (3) Free Markets. Whatever its merits (or lack thereof), the AZ immigration law is very dubious constitutionally as well as a step in the direction of less limited government. Also, its not closely related to Fiscal Responsibility or Free Markets. In fact, plenty of free marketers support free-er immigration. The Tea Party should not be taking sides on a divisive issue that is not connected to its Mission Statement. To do so is a strategic mistake that may side track and divide the movement and also may well be electorally harmful. There are plenty of issues we are clear winners on. Why get involved in antagonizing Hispanics, collaborate in being considered racist, and risk snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? This is plain dumb as well as wrong.
The eager involvement of race-baiter and anti-Semite Al Sharpton in Arizona’s immigration problems should clearly indicate to any reasonable American which is the right side and which is the wrong side of the immigration debate. If this frequent White House visitor, whose moral righteousness the President extols, opposes the enforcement of standing immigration laws and the enactment of tougher legislation then wise citizens should be in favor.
Barack Obama promised an honest discussion of race just as he promised transparency in government. Neither promise has been kept. This administration is allergic to sunshine. Indeed, it’s the shadiest administration we’ve had since Richard Nixon.
An open discussion of race would have to concede that the overwhelming majority of Americans have no ancestral connection to slavery. Moreover, that Americans with slave-holding ancestors are mainly concentrated in the African American community.
Al Sharpton’s much publicized surprise on learning that his grandfather was a slave-owner speaks volumes about both the intellectual depth and the emotional maturity of those who lecture America on race.
An honest discussion of race would have to acknowledge that a 90% plus vote for an African American Presidential candidate by African American voters is a clear indication of racial prejudice. And the commitment of an African American President to the welfare of all the people without preference becomes suspect if, in opposition to the majority of citizens polled, he vastly expands government where a disproportionate number of African Americans find employment and timely promotion. Implicit in this preference is the assumption that African Americans aren’t equipped to survive and prosper in a more competitive economic environment with a smaller government. And that is surely racist.
An honest discussion of race would recognize that the economic crisis we’re all experiencing didn’t begin with bankers and brokers. It began with a noble idea: Give the poor a stake in America. Make them homeowners.
Noble ideas usually remain just that. But this noble idea had an unspoken impetus. Now and then, finding excuse in a race-related outrage, the African American poor had a tendency to riot. Disturbing images of these unbridled orgies of looting and burning would appear in the media along with commentary on the massive accumulation of everyday racial injustice that took only one more spark to ignite. If the poor own the property, went the reasoning, the poor will be less inclined to burn down their own neighborhoods.
The chief obstacle in seeing the noble idea brought to fruition was financing. Financing required loans from bankers whose heats are notoriously the coldest thing on the planet and who make a policy of lending only to those who don’t need the money.
And so were born Fanny and Freddy and the explosion in subprime lending. The bundling of those poxed loans and other details come later. The root of the problem was a noble idea that runs contrary to basic capitalism, a system based on sound investment, which the poor are not by definition.
Of course, poor Whites benefited from the holiday from creditworthiness as well but I would insist in much smaller proportion than their proportion of the population. The motive for underwriting sub-prime loans was ultimately racial and African American friendly with other people’s money.
One hundred and fifty some odd years after the Civil War, Americans aren’t inclined to racism. It isn’t merely that the n-word is taboo or that there exists a burgeoning African American middle and upper middle class. Inconvenienced air travelers don’t audibly vent their impatience and frustration at Arabs or Muslims. (More’s the pity.) Racial incidents are at an all time low.
Those who make race an issue today usually have a professional stake in it and are doing it for personal gain.
Nah, it’s to preempt accusations of their own racism, which they live in deep denial about.
we just need to embrace it, we are all racist. left and right, now that we can accept this we can all begin our 12 steps of recovery. lets get to the issues! the racists finally got what they wanted in Arizona, who gave it to them? the cartels,the gang bangers,the druggies,and the criminals, who just went over the top. the tax and spend bureaucrats, i got a question? that bailout, was that a grant of some sort or was it a loan? has it been repaid or whats the status with the money? i heard only a portion was released. the banks were saved from collapse, so why do we have to raise taxes to pay for this money the government is holding onto?
Al Sharpton in Arizona’s immigration problems should clearly indicate to any reasonable American which is the right side and which is the wrong side of the immigration debate.
Al Sharpton, race baiter extraordinaire, inserts himself everywhere.
He inserted himself in the phony Duke case, in a more recent case where, as in the Duke case, a black woman was shown to be lying. I’ve seen pictures of ole Al with Cindy Sheehan hanging all over him, feelin’ the love.
Al’s thing is jumping in as a function of side/narrative, not as a function of facts.
He has been a joke at least since his own up close and personal
Tawana Brawley débacle, maybe before
Facts can be stubborn things:
http://depts.washington.edu/uwiser/racepolitics.html
“A recent survey directed by University of Washington political scientist Christopher Parker, finds that America is definitely not beyond race. For instance, the Tea Party, the grassroots movement committed to reining in what they perceive as big government, and fiscal irresponsibility, also appear predisposed to intolerance. Approximately 45% of Whites either strongly or somewhat approve of the movement. Of those, only 35% believe Blacks to be hardworking, only 45 % believe Blacks are intelligent, and only 41% think that Blacks are trustworthy. Perceptions of Latinos aren’t much different. While 54% of White Tea Party supporters believe Latinos to be hardworking, only 44% think them intelligent, and even fewer, 42% of Tea Party supporters believe Latinos to be trustworthy.”
…of course, this was published by an out-of-touch, elitist University, so take it as you will
Fully 96% of African Americans who voted in the last election voted for Obama. Does that prove that they are, to use your words, ” predisposed to intolerance “?
Or is it true that statistics don’t always tell the whole story?
Yes, and a closer look at the data shows that it is line with the general population, Democrats included. And science shows that race and empathy matter at neurological level: The more African-Americans identified as African-American the more likely they were to show greater empathic preference for African-Americans, the study showed. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100426182002.htm
What was your point, again?
What was *interesting* about that article was this little snippet (bold-italic emphasis mine):
“African-Americans showed greater empathy for African-Americans facing adversity — in this case for victims of Hurricane Katrina — than Caucasians demonstrated for Caucasian-Americans in pain.
Well, well, well. I thought Whitey was supposed to be bigoted and preferential towards his/her own ‘kind’? Guess NOT!
Certainly, Obama relies on race for his electoral base. He specifically said, in the electoral campaign, that his era was ‘post racial’ which was a clear statement that to PROVE you were not racial, you ought to vote for him. That, in itself, is a racist act by Obama.
His current comments to his electoral base, are pure racism, where he appeals to blacks, hispanics..and women..and his rejection of the federal duty to protect national borders, is a racist agenda. He is privileging hispanics against legitimate applicants from Canada, Europe, Asia, etc.
As for the Tea Parties, ALL that this poll means is that people who want: fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited govt and free markets, feel that the people who REJECT this set of three basic principles are: blacks and latinos. Given the statistical prevalence of both sets on welfare, social subsidies and their public demands for more social assistance, this is a factual perception.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704302304575214080056337658.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion
I now see that James Taranto gives a nice brief on the shortcomings of this, “scientific” survey. This is material covered elsewhere in greater detail, but he gives a nice brief. (Hint: Confirmation bias in play.)
This reminds me of a moment I experienced recently in a meeting on my campus at which a system diversity officer was making a presentation. In question time, the issue of measurement was raised concerning some of the cited studies. At that moment a colleague in the Psychology department proudly exclaimed that he’d spent his career “measuring what can’t be measured”. A rare moment of honesty, I observed.
I’ve found a few of the questions from that so called “study”:
• “Irish, Italians, Jewish, and many other minorities overcame prejudice and worked their way up. Blacks should do the same without special favors.”
• “Generations of slavery and discrimination have created conditions that make it difficult for blacks to work their way out of the lower class.”
• “Over the past few years blacks have gotten less than they deserve.”
• “It’s really a matter of some people not trying hard enough; if blacks would only try harder they could be just as well off as whites.”
According to the study authors, if you disagree with statement three, then you are a racist.
Liberals know that rather than simply dismiss a baseless charge conservatives will waste all their time and energy defending themselves from it.
That gives conservatives less microphone time to discuss the real issues.
For instance, onn April.4,2009 , President Obama, speaking in Cairo, said, ” No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons.”.
Just one year later we see the consequences of that statement- newly announced nuclear initiatives by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Jordan, Egypt and Libya.
I see no public indication of concern from either Obama or the State Department regarding these events. In fact its safe to say most Americans haven’t been informed.
The consequences of widespread nuclear initiatives in countries where America is hated should be of greater concern than any regional dispute or political infighting between two political parties.
Obamas failure to contain Iran has created great anxiety throughout the Middle East. Arab regimes knew Israel had the bomb but an unwritten understanding kept things in check.
Obama didn’t understand or value the Israeli deterrent. He demonstrated by his actions towards Israel that he could walk away from a valuable ally.
Other countries have taken notice. That is why the race is on.
The end result is more nukes in more hands. That can’t be good for anybody.
Rather than waste time with nonsense, shine the spotlight where it belongs- policies that endanger American lives.
Mark,
I think it is that the real rich in this country are immune from the consequences. Raise taxes on the “wealthy?” So what? Mom and Dad’s assets are sheltered by trusts, clever accountants and lawyers. There’s little risk but a great opportunity to gain influence. I call it Warren Buffett Sanctimonious Syndrome.
If Buffett is so concerned that he pays less as a percentile of his income than his personal secretary, it’s only because he’s got the dough to pay the experts to shelter the earnings. I don’t see Warren stepping up to the plate to alleviate the differences. He could. Same with all these “pious” Kennedy Klan preaching about “soaking the rich” – here rich being two professional incomes filing under one tax return, or a small business owner.
People like Buffett and the Kennedy family play by a different set of rules than us serfs. Little personal risk and a willingness to demonstrate their “humanity” on the backs of others, sprinkled with monumental hypocrisy they believe we are too stupid to see, provides the opportunity to appear magnanimous to the masses – a perfect ploy for Democratic politicians to pander for votes.
The best response to an allegation of racism is to under-react dismissively, with a long-suffering sigh, saying, “Is that the best you’ve got?” and go back to your original point.
Always fun to watch the leftists’ reaction. Think blow-up doll that’s sprung a leak. A big leak.
This is something beyond “opposition.” The bare-faced lies — such big ones, the deceit, the manipulation, the disregard, the total disrespect, the race-baiting, the class-warfare, the dirty dealing, the profiteering (I’ve run out of adjectives) is far beyond anything shady that we’ve ever been exposed to in American politics before. Way beyond.
Second that.
An unprecedented level of underhandedness & bald-faced deceit.
Facts can be stubborn things
Yes, especially when such “facks” emanate from some political scientist at washington.edu.
Snopup,
And there’s three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. Please see rules #2 and #3.
Did these brilliant professors attend Tea Parties to gather their data and determine their observations? Because with just a little confirmation bias, and a few leading questions mixed in with my personal flavor of politics, I’ll bet I can set the ground rules while analyzing the results and determine that 99.8% of Tea Partiers are angels walking the earth.
In fact, I bet that I could attend a Tea Party and find with almost certainty that 90% of attendees would refuse to answer questions like that.
Wanna place a bet on the board that I am right?
A black, Third World type leader, and a non-American was installed as President of the US in 11/04/08 to “fundamentally transform” America and to do her in.
Some Americans reacted, through the Tea Party. No surprise here, and expected by both sides, well before hand.
Those will be called “racists” and “seditious” (among other names). That was well planned ahead, as well.
And the escalation continues, just like in pre-Nazi Germany and pre-revolutionary Russia. This is what they (the BHO backers) plan and expect as well. Their wild card: the military – it’s in their pockets right now.
One more time:
The US Military takes an oath to defend the _Constitution_
not the administration in power. They are taught that this
means staying out of political wars, short of actual armed
Insurrection, even if they turn violent, and _they_ make
that judgment call, not the POTUS; The military will
enforce martial law if, say, the state government of
California is overwhelmed by riots, but If Obama
tries to use the military to set himself up as a Dictator,
the military will refuse to obey his _unlawful_ orders.
Not only that, but the military would use their firepower to depose Obama (or any future president who would attempt a similar stunt).
And what planet do you live on?
All the suggestions to lower the debt abd deficits are throwing a bucket of warm water on a forest fire.
It is the slavery to the federal reserve banking system that has enabled the monster to grow unabated, Nixon removing gold convertibility in 1971 supercharged the deficit spending. Its been straight downhill since.
I don’t see a single politician with the spine to actually tell it it like it is; the US economy is beholden to European Bankers, they get paid first and last and have been since 1913.
I know this isn’t popular to discuss on this website, being the bare naked truth and all, but unless the USA takes back control of its banking system, nothing is ever going to change, and it will just continue sliding downwards.
you wouldn’t know the truth if it attached itself to your hindmost quarters.
I think Obama & the Dems aren’t actually doing anything to
help the Illegal aliens in America because the majority of
them are hispanic. And they are competing for jobs and free
resources from government programs. Also a large percentage
of Black Americans do vote unlike hispanics. Although Obama
wants to keep everyone on the plantation, he can’t have it
for both – not now.
Bravo, Roger.
Has anyone noticed that the “racist” term is losing it’s punch? I think it’s because it’s been used way out of context and for political reasons. Keep using the term and before you know it, it will lose it’s meaning and power completely.
Can someone explain how “Stay thirsty!” makes any sense as something to wish upon “friends”? Otherwise, right on.
‘Stay Hungry’, the title of the Body-Builder movie with Ahnold
is advice on how to maintain an extra ‘edge’ in that kind
of competition; More generally, someone who is ‘hungry’ will
try harder, and be more alert to opportunity, and threats.
‘Stay Thirsty’ is a first; Maybe advice for alcoholics ?
That makes some sense in that context. I think, “Quench your thirst, my friends!” would make more sense in a beer commercial.
As a white, liberal man who observed the overwhelming majority that I saw on TV and in web stories about the movement were white, I can say that the aspect that drew my ire was that here were these people complaining loudly about government expenditures and invasions of privacy, saying they were mad as hell and weren’t going to take it anymore, but when a white man was POTUS and spending trillions of dollars on wars and massive expansion of the size of the Federal Government, as well as illegally spying on US citizens, these people were no where to be found, except at Best Buy picking up the latest 50″ flat screen TV.
So do I believe there is a aspect of racism and fear of losing one’s primacy in our society to this movement? Yeah, I guess I do. Seems pretty obvious. I make no comment here about the morality of their arguments and in fact agree with some of them in part, or can at least see their point on the bank bailout issue.
It has also been pointed out recently that if the same number of black men wearing guns showed up on the Mall, asserting loudly their Second Amendment rights, assaulting white congressmen and yelling about overthrowing tyranny, you can bet blood would have been spilled. And some of these same people would have breathed a sigh of relief when the boots came down on the protester’s necks.
Why do liberals feel the need to lie about everything?
If you feel that nobody was complaining about Bush’s spending, then you were either comatose then, or lying now.
Which is it?
Oh I believe there is a final meme of the left that is about to raise its ugly head.
One way or another, you just watch, people of the Tea Party, and the conservative minded people of America will be branded and persecuted in a lapdog press propaganda scheme designed to paint us as violent revolutionary’s.
In a last ditch effort to save the agenda of the left, and forever secure the elite in their positions of power and wealth, Marshal Law will be used. Obama is about to be prevented from serving for more than one term as the impostor president, (personally I believe he is an illegal alien, reason for hiding his past on top of his ineligibility), by various States enacting Constitutionally based legislation requiring proof of natural born citizenship to get on the states ballets for US President. If obama and the power base wants to retain their rule and power, Marshal Law is the only true way to undermine the Constitution, and selectively shut up the opposition that is screaming for sanity and a return to founding principles in our government, leaders and culture.
This quite simply can not be allowed, not after decades of subversive agenda, not while the prize of tyranny over Republican form of government is within grasp of the elite.
You watch, it is coming. I say look to a vital symbolic time in our country’s founding, and the creation of a crisis and or event that justifies crushing once and for all that pesky piece of parchment that has been a terrible thorn in the side of the elite and radical left for 100+ years; The Constitution of The United States of America, and the supreme Sovereign power it invests in the Will of The People.
We are revolutionary. Whether we have to become violent depends on them.
It’s martial, not marshall.
Obama’s mother was a US citizen, so he’s a US citizen. Which means he can’t be an illegal alien.
Obama has presented his certificate of live birth, which was certified by the state of Hawaii as being proof that he was born in the US and to the identity of his parents. This document alone would be sufficient to get him on the ballot in all 50 states.
Mark, ‘illegal alien’ may not be correct, as it implies he immigrated illegally to the US. While an argument can be made that this is indeed the case, it is confusing given that Obama at least was (if he is not now) a US citizen at birth and until such time as he was moved to Indonesia. There is proof that he traveled on an Indonesian passport, so he must have accepted (with his parents’ help, of course), Indonesian citizenship as a child. According to the laws of that country, he would have had to give up his US citizenship.
That may have required an active renunciation done on his behalf by his mother and step-father; or, there may have been no renunciation. Or, Indonesia may have allowed him to take citizenship while ignoring their own requirement.
There will never be an accounting on this from Indonesian officials or reporters.
As for the COLB being valid, that would be true if the document were authentic. There is considerable evidence that the document shown on the Web was in fact altered using software.
Parents are not legally allowed to renounce a child’s citizenship.
He’s a US citizen until he becomes a legal adult, and renounces it himself.
Mark, how did he travel to Pakistan on an Indonesian passport without having the citizenship?
This evidence that the COLB was altered is in fact made up to non-existant.
Mark, you’re dead wrong for basically two reasons: (i) Why is he hiding his records, if there’s nothing there to hide? You, and all those who argue that he’s a legitimate President being a “natural born citizen,” have no answer to that question. And (2) The agency that “verified” the authenticity of that “Certification of Live Birth” (to be distinguished from a “Certificate of Live Birth” i.e., a “Birth Certificate”) from Hawaii, the Factcheck.org, is an outlet of the Chicago Annenberg Foundation, and nothing needs to be added to that rug’s credibility. Bottom line: this guy has at least dual citizenship (British, since his father was a British subject at the time BHO was born), and Indonesian (as a result of him being adopted by Soetoro). All this assumes that he was born in Hawaii – and there isn’t a shred of credible evidence to support that. There’s credible testimony by many, including his own wife Michelle (July 2008), that Kenya is his “home country.”
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Since this my blog, I will jump in here to say quite clearly that I believe "birther" analysis to be absurd and deeply self-destructive in that it directs attack on Obama away from his policies and on to the world of fantasy and illogical speculation. That the Honolulu Advertisers has a birth announcement for Barack Obama makes "birthers" seem crackpots. I request commenters here to restrict their posts to factual analysis and take "birther" commentary to other venues where it might be welcome. It is not welcome here. RLS]
Here’s my latest theory to explain this madness:
Think Sigmund Freud’s defense mechanism, projection
The left is so busy twisting themselves into pretzels to make sure their own racism does not show that they have no recourse other than to project it onto others. In this case, we are the other.
I sometimes wonder if this applies to the endless need to degrade and dismiss Palin. Whatever doubts or concerns the left may harbor deep down about Obama, they project onto Palin.
Given the vile daily onslaught dished out by the left toward Palin and toward all of us on the right, I’d say they’ve got a lot of misdirected rage and hate.
Here’s my latest theory to explain this madness:
Think Sigmund Freud’s defense mechanism, projection
The left is so busy twisting themselves into pretzels to make sure their own racism does not show that they have no recourse other than to project it onto others. In this case, we are the other.
I sometimes wonder if this applies to the endless need to degrade and dismiss Palin. Whatever doubts or concerns the left may harbor deep down about Obama, they project onto Palin.
Given the vile daily onslaught dished out by the left toward Palin and toward all of us on the right, I’d say they’ve got a lot of misdirected rage and hate.
To call opponents bigots in some way is the standard response of the “progressive left” Roger. Yesterday while on a walkabout un a northern industrial town for the election campaign Prime Minister Gordon Brown dismissed a woman who tried to raise the immigration issue as a bigot.
Coming from a man who leads Labour, “the peoples party” it provoked a huge backlash. The election was already lost for Labour but this could contribute to the collapse of the working class core vote.
Boggart Blog today published a helpful guide on “How To Be A Bigot”
What’s REALLY interesting about Gordon Brown’s dustup with the grouchy lady is the reaction of the British press, compared with our own Pravdaesque fifth-column media’s treatment of “Joe the Plumber”. When Brown insulted the voter on videotape, the Brit media…just delivered the facts. Here’s what happened, here’s who was involved, let the viewer decide the effect for himself. When JTP’s confrontation with Obama went viral, the American media promptly dispatched a horde of “reporters” to Ohio – to dig up dirt on JTP, with the thoughtful assistance of local Democrat government officials.
I think when the whole thing started, back when Obama was elected and took the oath the MSM, and many on the left, tended to believe the t-party ticked alot of “the right boxes” for their assumptions. However, I for one, along with many that have read a bit deeper about the movement and the people within that movement have come to see it as something more. Actually, I would hope the MSM would pick up a bit more on the fact that the majority of t-party people, and its spokespersons, have gone “out of their way” to distance themselves from reckless thinkers and make it clear, they are “inclusive”. Nice article, thanks.
I work on a military instalation. The day after the election I saw two black Military Policemen “high fiving” each other and one made the loud announcement: “WE THE MAJORITY NOW!”. That is when it struck me that apparently to black voters the main reason to vote for b Hussein Osama was to “get even” with whitey. I dunno…seems kinda racist to me.
Ya think?
I would not use the word Liberal to describe this administration, or its philosophy. This administration is trying to force a radical shift from a relatively free economy to a socialist, command-and-control economy. This is not consistent with the basic principles of Liberalism, which leave room for both individual freedom and rational economic principles. I recall that Michelle Malkin once pointed out that the great liberal, Barbara Jordan, would have been on her side on the immigration issue.
Liberals do believe in safety nets for individuals in society, and our experience with the Great Society gave mixed results. Since then, more economic data, and wisdom, have been developed. This administration is a great disappointment to liberals like me because its economic policy is a hodgepodge of old, bad ideas and crony capitalism. We know better than this. The failure to acknowledge the teachings of the last 50 years of our history is beyond foolish.
Take a look at this blog entry by Daniel Hannan: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100037057/whats-the-single-worst-aspect-of-gordon-browns-bigoted-woman-remarks/
Whenever disagreements arise when the culturally sterile
say one thing, and the culturally conservative counter it,
we see the sterile counter the rebuttal of the disputer being totally wrong, and not just intellectually wrong.
#71 VALERIE: There really is NO difference whatever between a Stalinist and a liberal, except,perhaps, in honesty of presentation and physical courage in the Stalinist. Philosophically,and psychologically, they are both the same:fanatical statists who want to ban guns, free speech,political dissent,free elections, and destroy the middle class on behalf of a “new class” of corporatist leftie-plutocrats, enviroluddite cretins,and welfare dependent rabble.They promote racism against the middle class,attempt to destroy,its economic security,through conficatory taxes, indoctrinate their children,throw them out of their houses, and censor their dissenting voices in our colleges.They lickspittle marxist psycho dictators like Castro(whose brutal power they envy),and revere his henchman,Che.They defended Stalin, and did everything possible to sabotage Reagan’s successful assault on the Soviets denying ,against all the evidence, that it was an evil empire that killed tens of millions. There isn’t a single libtard out there who doesn’t wish they could exterminate every last Tea Partier in an American Gulag.Like the Stalinist, the LIB at war with reality and needs an Utopia to tolerate his monstrous fear of the world, and of human nature ;they are willing to suppress all dissent to create a simulacrum of Utopia,because dissent reminds them of an intractable reality they need to deny, in order to tolerate their pathetic little lives.Watch for the left to launch a Chavez-like war on conservatives, as November looms near,promising to neuter the Obama regime.Remenber:SCRATCH A LIBERAL;FIND A STALINIST!
See deguello…?
When you say there is no difference between a liberal and a stalinist, your name calling. Which only does damage against your “so called” correct arguement. Name calling does not prove anything, except your personal jealousy against those you consider to be right. Get it?
Robert Ringer once distinguished leftist types thus:
A self-described liberal is a “socialist in the closet.”
An admitted socialist is “out of the closet.”
An admitted communist is trying to shove you into the closet.
The fundamental liberal philosophy is one of theft, so who cares whether moral people who pull their own weight get along with those idiots. Personally I have told my liberal friends, neighbors, and family that if you are a liberal leftist, then you are my enemy. I am not friendly with people that are fundamentally morally blind, with a criminal childlike mentality…screw them! All the good moral people need to get a backbone and stand up to these a-holes.
Roger
you indignantly claim that the tea party need offer no evidence of their lack of racism. you go on to say in this country a man is innocent until proven guilty. implying that matters of the courts and politics are the same in the sense of argumentative presumption. it is true a man charged with a crime is innocent and the presumption lies with the defense in the courts, negative in argumentation. the prosecutors or affirmative in courts and national topic and cross examination debate hold the burden. i.e. they must prove the defense guilty.
let me count the angels on a pin for you. politics is not the court. it is not national topic debate, or even cross examination or lincoln douglas debate. it often, indeed in every important issue in america’s history, follows the format and rules of an evaluative debate.
in an evaluative debate the burden can shift to the defense with a prima facia indictment of immorality. simpler, when the prosecutor charges immorality, and that charge on first look is reasonable the burden of proof changes to the defender. hold it you say, that is not fair. as an ex intercollegiate debater and judge for more years than i care to count i reply, sorry, dem is da rules and you should know it.
examples abound; the nations 3 great historical divides are religion, slavery, and abortion. abolitionists charged that slavery was immoral, note that the presumption shifted from the south to the north. now the south needed to prove their contentions were moral. abortion is the law. challenge that it is murdering babies, and abortionists must defend the action as not killing babies. this is why the homosexual lobby claims discrimination, they wish to shift the burden of proving homosexual marriage is a right from them to the side opposing side. if the status quo is indicted on a morality issue the presumption shifts unless it is not believable at first look. in the case of homosexual marriage the response is the law treats all people the same so it cannot be discrimination. that is why the burden remains with the homosexual marriage is wonderful side.
it is easy to pick hundreds of examples of this burden shift in politics. it is natural, and the correct response is to specifically evaluate the immorality charge. in most cases it is an inductive argument. what debaters would call a shotgun argument. induction uses examples to conclude a general principle. the test for inductive proof in science is complete enumeration of the possibilities. in politics it is to show enough examples so the conclusion is clear. kinda like having a jig saw puzzle with enough pieces matched so that the whole is inescapable. in a nut, the sided charged with immorality has to respond to the charge and show it is not proven and or true.
ok ok, so this is splitting hairs. however, Aristotle and Socrates would love me, and sir you are considerably better armed for rhetorical combat if you understand dem rules. kabish?
Buddy, we are already at stage three, where the lefties are supposed to explain their accusation AFTER IT WAS SHOWN to be false. You think you can challenge racism indefinitely, or are Tea Party conservatives supposed to constantly rebound lousy racism chucks?
Now, judge for yourself, how base is a person who instead of searching for substance in their opposing voice chooses to aim ceaselessly at the most sensitive subjects for that potential political jackpot? themselves thinking they are clean?
Hey, KevinB, don’t be so hard on GCBlues. He may have spewed endless pompous nonsense but he ends with a great new spelling of capisce. Capisce?
It’s impossible to prove that you are not a racist.
How would you go about doing it, since you are the only person who actually knows what you are thinking.
It’s easy to prove that someone is a racist by what they say and do.
3 cheers for a very good argument. a far superior argument than your lost in the middle illegal alien article.
MarkTheGreat
Given how central the war is to crushing the terrorists, if you are opposed to the war, merely because of how much money is being spent, then yes, you are helping the terrorists.
I think your statement should be circulated far and wide, as the kind of asinine logic motivating the people who read this drivel. Seriously, I’ve heard children do better. Be that as it may, you could certainly turn it around to express a sentiment I ACTUALLY DON’T BELIEVE, BUT IS COMPLETELY THE SAME KIND OF THINKING.
“Given how central Obama’s election is to reaching racial parity, if you are opposed to him, merely because [insert your stupid, completely out of touch reason here], then yes, you are helping the racists”
You would rightly condemn that as the most base stupidity. And yet, its exactly what you just said. Stupid people, stupid website.
There’s a big difference.
My statement is true, yours is a lie.
The fact that my statement is true is self evident to those who’s heads aren’t buried so far up their a$$es that they need scuba gear to breath.
And the commitment of an African American President to the welfare of all the people without preference becomes suspect if, in opposition to the majority of citizens polled, he vastly expands government where a disproportionate number of African Americans find employment and timely promotion.
Another example of the kind lightweight, logic and evidence free thinking that permeates both the writing and commenting here. If you can prove that there is any evidence of this submit it. I’m pretty sure there’s no such evidence. More to the point, your assumption that he is doing that, without even bothering to prove it–even to yourself–shows that you are exactly the kind of blind bigot that is constantly screeching reverse racism, even while you do everything to demonstrate your inability to think outside of bigoted fantasies.
Liberals reflexively cast their enemies as racists, and see racism everywhere, in part because the fight against racism was the crown jewel of liberal America’s record.
Let’s be fair. In the 1950s and 60s, it was liberal Democrats like Hubert Humphrey who led the way on this issue. They were supported by most Republicans (and opposed by all Southern Democrats), but there was a time when William F. Buckley and National Review were defenders of the Jim Crow South. (They got better, thank heavens.) The Freedom Riders were big-city liberals.
Today’s liberals are desperately nostalgic for an era when their enemies were in the wrong. Many of today’s “black leaders” (the older ones) were heroes of that struggle; they want to stay in that space, and they can’t accept that their record then doesn’t excuse corruption now.
There’s a similar syndrome on the right: we were right about Communism, and it was our leader, Reagan, who won that struggle. (And again, to be fair, there were lots of Cold War liberals.) A lot of conservatives would like to stay in that space. And unlike conservatives, liberals got worse on this issue: the Cold War liberals died off, and the McGovernite types welcomed Communist victory in Vietnam and fawned on Castro.
So it’s gratifying to recall that era, and even label Obama a Communist. (Is it Communist to give billions of $ to Wall Street cronies? I don’t think so.) But it’s a temptation that should be resisted.
It may come as a surprise to you, but these Wall Street firms that got these billions of dollars from BHO are the “new” socialists/marxists/commies who helped him get elected, like the communist Chinese “capitalists”. It’s kind like the new socialists in the UK are the old British aristocrats/royalty. It’s the new World, where up is down and down is up. Got it now?
we were right about Communism
Oh, yeah, sure you were, Joe McCarthy. Foolish crap. Right about communism. Of course, you were, when you were going after everyone with a moderately diverse thought process, and burning the first amendment on a pyre of paranoid conformism. Yeah, you were so totally right.
Has the phrase “Venona decrypts” made its way to your garbage can yet?
Have you ever managed to have even a partial relationship with reality?
The trouble is we always allow the left to set the terms of the discussion. But I must admit that they are sort of right about one thing. I don’t like Obama because of his color: RED.
Ah yes, Patrik Jonnson, who elsewhere hypothesized with famous criminologist guy Jack Levin that the child rapist on the run who mowed down four innocent cops in Oakland was actually just worried about the economy. There is an enormous and powerful cottage industry of “reporters” and criminologists laboring to blame anyone but criminals for real crime while accusing ordinary Americans of being “the real danger.” They are now well-positioned in the media and academia to use these very tactics to demonize the Tea Party. I’m a little hesitant about the protocol for offering a link, but I’ve written about Levin and Jonnson blaming blue collar America here: http://crimevictimsmediareport.com/?p=485
Found some examples of questions from that so called study that liberals think proves Tea Partiers are racist.
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• “Irish, Italians, Jewish, and many other minorities overcame prejudice and worked their way up. Blacks should do the same without special favors.”
• “Generations of slavery and discrimination have created conditions that make it difficult for blacks to work their way out of the lower class.”
• “Over the past few years blacks have gotten less than they deserve.”
• “It’s really a matter of some people not trying hard enough; if blacks would only try harder they could be just as well off as whites.”
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For example, if you disagree with the assertion of question three, you are racially resentfull, according to the authors of the study.
In other words, once again, liberals have set themselves up as the standard, and anyone who disagrees with them is a racist.
#78 OSCAR THE DOUCHE(bag).No evidence? It’s called “AFFIRMATIVE AKTION”,state -sanctioned, profiling and racism aimed at discriminating against better qualified Whites,in favor of the inept. It if weren’t for this anti-white racial profiling, Our intellectually challenged,tele-prompter dependent,sock puppet of Wall Street, president could have never gotten into Columbia.Go empty your douche bag full of libtard hypocrisy elsewhere,if PJM is so “lightweight” why don’t you? I suggest Sonia Sotomayor’s house,(no doubt funded iwth a Fannie Mae welfare mortage.
Odd isn’t it that Simon and all the tea partiers insist that they’re not racist… and then when someone says he was verbally assaulted with the n-word during the health care debate all the tea partiers demand proof. I’m sorry isn’t John Lewis’ word good enough for you? Do you think a leader of the civil rights movement whose certainly been subjected to the word before would lie about it? A bit racist don’t you think? Sounds to me like your message is that you can’t trust the word of a black man. Or perhaps you’d like to tell me what exactly your message is?
John Lewis is a liar. He has backed off his original statements and has no documented proof. He thinks this is the 60s, but dinosaurs like him have quickly realized you can’t cry “racism” without proof anymore. Breitbart et. al. won’t be quieted that easily.
Roger: Your words are true, but perhaps you are too kind? I am working on a monograph that will show how it really is the Democrats who have promoted failed social programs-on purpose-to keep Blacks in a state of dependency, with its accompanying spiritual, emotional, and psychological immaturity. In other words, since post-Civil War, the Democrat party continually promotes government programs designed to keep Blacks in a state as close to slavery as possible.
In other words: Pot, Kettle, Black. Or to paraphrase Shakespeare: The Democrats doth protest too much, methinks.
#78 Oscar Le Grouche:
“…Another example of the kind lightweight, logic and evidence free thinking that permeates both the writing and commenting here. If you can prove that there is any evidence of this submit it…you are exactly the kind of blind bigot that is constantly screeching reverse racism, even while you do everything to demonstrate your inability to think outside of bigoted fantasies…”
Your overheated response to my comment proves Roger’s assertion about liberals crying racism, Oscar. You’re quite right, though. I have no scientific data to support my statement that “…government (is) where a disproportionate number of African Americans find employment and timely promotion…”
I’m just citing the evidence of my eyes and ears. And I stand by my statement. I believe a) that the the disproportionate African American vote for Obama was racist and b) that Obama’s big-government policies favor African Americans and indicate that the President suffers from what his predecessor used to call the “prejudice of low expectations.”
I have been waiting so long for an article stating exactly this. Liberals accuse the Tea Partiers of racism only because this is all they have left. A willing media will only spread the lies of racism or distort the rhetoric of the Tea Party to have it say something it doesn’t. Liberals are lazy, hateful people. But what they aren’t is “scared” of the Tea Partiers. I’m so tired of hearing this trite. They think they’re are morally superior and will transform the nation’s body politik by instituting progressive programs and changing the demographics through a constant underclass of immigrants who are loyal to the Dems. Let’s prove them wrong.
#85KGE. So now it’s racist to want to verify a democrat’s ranting because he’s black and participated in the civil rights movement? Are you insane? As a matter of fact,Lewis either lied,is paranoid,is on an Alzheimer’s trip,or is just doing what comes naturally:engaging in reflexive race-baiting:anyone of which would qualify him as a typical democrat blowhard.No video has yet surfaced of his alleged victimization. Tea partiers have to begin to organize against the real racism:AFFIRMATIVE AKTION!
The race card is offically “maxed out.” Credit line is all used up; sorry, race-baiters! No one is intimidated by it anymore, witness the national dialogue we are finally having, Thank God. Yes, we really are having that “honest discussion” about race, instead of the shrill lecture we have been subjected to for so long.
Well said, Mr. Simon. Several months ago, I wrote the passage below, which is (“shockingly”) still relevant. I agree with you about the rigor mortis of liberalism.
“Why call it racism? There are two reasons. The first is the hope for political profit by those who make claims of racism. The second reason is related to the first but is more complex. As our society has progressed, those dedicated to civil rights causes have had less influence, less grist. The feminist movement is the clearest example of this phenomenon – now in it’s “third wave.” A deconstruction occurs in which old labels are applied to new intellectual paradigms. The feminist movement is no longer about women’s rights – but rather gender roles and norms (which are to be deconstructed).
By calling opponents of Obama’s policies “racist,” the liberal racism argument can survive and can continue to exert influence, where it would otherwise flounder.”
Liberalism in America has no integrity and has reduced itself to naked grasps for minority votes and calling anything and everything racist.
The race card isn’t going to work anymore. The USA is the first white majority country to elect a person of African decent to the head of state (with 40% of the white vote). Racism is effectively over; white guilt is assuaged. Not that there aren’t racists, there are. Their like the poor, always with us. But I, for one, am tired being judged by the color my skin (I’m white). Let’s talk policy!
Stay thirsty, Mr. Simon? I am Parched!!!
Do racist ever admit to being racist?
The Left’s claim that Tea Parties are racist is even more stupid than the Right’s claim that Obama is Communist. There is one big difference between these two silly assertions, however. Those who claim Tea Parties are-Racist claim represent the mainstream of the Left, whereas those who assert Obama is Communist are recognized as the Right fringe.
Bravo Roger Simon. “Rigor mortis” about says it. Understanding black pride (I’ve worked in black homes in black neighborhoods for over fifteen years), still intellectually, I couldn’t understand how Obama could get one vote. Obama, thank you for awaking the sleeping giant. Obama’s high crimes which he and his henchman commit D-A-I-L-Y has created a tidal wave which will not be soon forgotten. Everything hinges on the November election. Thank you Obama for willfully edging the country toward civil war. It’ll just give you another excuse to impose martial law. You’re already sending swat teams to defuse the grandma/grandpa threat.
Do a little research on Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). They were due a black leader, too. Then this in addition to one of the above posts:
Obama calls his Alinskyite experience “the best education I ever had.” How much do you need? Van Jones, Anita Dunn. Jesus!
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